an anthology on swear words beyond hokkien expletives

limegreenspyda made an interesting point:

and *just* sometimes, greetings of cheebye or munjen or pundeh become terms of endearment in themselves. wonderful how we evolve, eh

now considering all the controversy surrounding the blogsphere since the indictment of the 2 alleged cyber-racists and the ephraim episode which raised concerns about the prevalent use of hokkien expletives throughout the singpore blogsphere. the last thing the singapore blogsphere needs is more negative publicity stereotyping it as vulgar websites whose monolinguistical use of hokkien expletives serving to advance some cultural imperialistic, chinese chauvinistic agenda.

so while we probably can change the vulgar bit, (which is perhaps the very thing that makes reading blogs so interesting), perhaps we can at least change the language in which we cyber-curse in. considering our diverse cultural heritage, there's no reason why we shouldn't swear in other languages since there a a gadzillion more interesting way to swear other than the cliched KNNBCCB seen on most blogs.

so here's my little contribution by posting some of the Tamil expletives i learnt during army, courtesy of my 2 awesome bunkmates, Gaya and Murali. hopefully the next time someone else complain about blogs being vulgar, it won't be simply that of the usual hokkien expletives. u'll come to realise that Tamil is an infinitely more colourful language than hokkien with far more sophisticated modes of swearing.

The Basics:

' per-sar-veh ' = crazy/mad

' pan-dee ' = pig/swine

' soo-ter ' = ass

' pu-re-ker ' = asshole

' pun-deh ' = cunt/cheebye

' kun-ji ' = dickhead

' mo-leh ' = tits

'my-ree' = hair

'e-leh' = without/dun have

Nouns and words used to embellish long curses

' na-yee ' = dog

' ama ' = mother

' apa ' = father

' tan-ge-chi ' = sister

'ni' = you

'unn' = your

'nan' = me/mine

Verbs

' or-va-yee-leh ' = inside one's mouth

' or ' = to put inside

and so putting it all together, we get the


swear phrases used in cursing

'ni kunji myree eleh' = you, who is without pubic hair (ie. wuss)

'ni pureker eleh' = you, who is without an asshole

'sooter pandee' = swine ass


and

the thermonuclear swear phrases ala KNNBCCB

'unn tangechi moleh, orvayeeleh' = Your sister's tits are in your mouth

'nayee kunji or ni ama pundeh leh' = A dog's dick is in your mother's cheebye

'nan apa kunji or ama pundeh leh'
= My father's dick is in your mother's cheebye (dun ask me why that is even a curse, but that's what i learnt)

'nayee kunji or unn pureker leh' = A dog's dick is in your asshole

'unn apa kuji or nayee pureker leh' = Your father's dick is in a dog's asshole

just which the verbs and nouns around and you'll get a new swear phrase. you should get the idea.

here comes the really humorous and long swear phrases which i guess can be used either tongue-in-cheek or as a friendly jab at a fren, no unlike the 'cheebye lah' as opposed to the considerably more antagonistic KNNBCCB

humorous long swear phrases

' yee-woo-de-pee, ser-gu-re-ke, e-dom' = You are a toilet bowl.

'yen-va-yee-leh, yee-re-krae. pah-leh-ku-chee ya-wee-leh. wong ko-tek sin-ne-dei '
= Your dick is smaller than the toothpick i have in my mouth

and my personal favourite!

'unn apa soon-ni nan-de, kar-di-chi-chee'
= May your father's balls be pinched by a crab.

I've been told that the most vulgar Tamil word is a certain word that begans with 'T-' which means prostitute and it is a phrase which one should NEVER EVER under any circumstances use without wanting to get beaten up big time, so i'm not putting it up. For that matter, most of the phrases under the thermonuclear swear phrases section should NEVER be used in real life either unless u have a death wish. other than that, revel in your new found multi-lingual ability to curse!

have u had your dosage of cathartic swearing today?